BSc Business Information Technology

About the Course

 

Laptop Diary This challenging course provides an in-depth understanding of information systems, IT and contemporary management practices. You will develop a wide range of practical skills through lectures, workshops, group work, industrial visits and project work.

Information Technology, Business and Management are highly valued disciplines in both the public and private sectors. This degree will provide you with opportunities to develop online databases, business applications and a portfolio of desirable knowledge and skills relevant to your future career. The Conference and Placement module is an opportunity for you to apply your theoretical knowledge to real workplace situations.

You will be encouraged to:

  • Develop decision-making and problem-solving skills to help you analyse and produce innovative solutions to business problems
  • Expand and build on knowledge of IT applications for use within a business context
  • Develop a range of transferable skills sought after by many employers, including effective communication and interpersonal skills

Award
BSc (Single Honours)

UCAS Code
N190

Language Choice
English

Course Length
3 years full-time. Part-time study available

Entry Requirements

See introduction

You will be invited to visit the University to discuss the course. Entry is based on individual merit.

Career Opportunities

  • ICT Specialists
  • Web Designers
  • Financial Services
  • Business Management and Consultancy

Department

School of Business

Campus

Carmarthen Campus

Typical modules

  • Business Information Systems
  • E-commerce Development and Management
  • Data Handling and Statistics
  • Introduction to Business Functions
  • Visual Programming and Program Design
  • Computer Systems and Data Communications
  • Business Information Systems
  • Project Management
  • Finance

Key Features

  • A varied course covering the main business issues with local, national and global contexts
  • Exchange opportunities in Europe and USA possible
  • Practical focus
  • Links with public and private sector businesses
  • Collaboration with agencies and schemes concerned with developing enterprise and business ideas
  • Work Placement Officer can arrange paid and unpaid placements to ensure that you are fully conversant with the workplace environment

Why study at this University?

  • Extensive links with public and private sector businesses
  • Collaboration with agencies and schemes concerned with developing enterprise and business ideas
  • Work Placement Officer can arrange paid and unpaid placements to ensure that you are fully conversant with the workplace environment

Programme Specification

The main educational aims of the programme are:

  • to provide students with the requisite understanding of the main bodies of knowledge within the programme of study;
  • to develop transferable skills that enable students to produce organised work as individuals and as part of a team with minimum guidance;
  • to offer students a distinctive learning experience;
  • to develop students’ cognitive and practical skills as appropriate within the programme of study;
  • to draw upon the multidisciplinary nature of the programme to enrich the students’ experiences;
  • to develop students’ abilities to identify problems, analyse, design and develop computer based systems with appropriate documentation;
  • to encourage positive and critical attitudes to change and enterprise so as to reflect the dynamism and vibrancy of the business environment;
  • to develop students that have a view of business and management that is derived from a wide variety of learning sources including independent study, reflection, group activities and guided learning.

Programme Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

  • Design, development, testing and evaluation of information systems including database systems, programs and web based systems.
  • The application of structured methods to web-based systems and eBusiness development
  • Software development tools and programming languages and programming fundamentals.
  • The application of graphics and multimedia applications in the context of web development.
  • Fundamentals of computer hardware. Theory and practice of communications and computer networking.
  • Computer based systems and operating systems.
  • The internal aspects, functions and processes of organisations.
  • The processes, procedures and practices for effective management.
  • The development and operation of markets for resources, goods and services.
  • The management of finance; the use of accounting and other information systems for managerial applications.
  • The management of resources and operations.
  • Application of software packages in the business context.

Cognitive Skills

  • Modelling: use such knowledge and understanding in the modelling and design of computer-based systems for the purposes of comprehension, communication, prediction and the understanding of trade-offs.
  • Requirements, practical constraints and computer-based systems (and this includes computer systems, information systems, embedded systems and distributed systems) in their context: recognise and analyse criteria and specifications appropriate to specific problems, and plan strategies for their solution.
  • Critical evaluation and testing: analyse the extent to which a computer-based system meets the criteria defined for its current use and future development.
  • Methods and tools: deploy appropriate theory, practices and tools for the specification, design, implementation and evaluation of computer-based systems.
  • Computational thinking including its relevance to everyday life.
  • An ability to identify and define subject specific facts, theories, paradigms, principles and concepts and generalise appropriately.
  • An ability to critically assess and evaluate evidence.
  • The critical interpretation of data and text.
  • An ability to describe and analyse information.
  • The capability to identify assumptions, evaluate statements in terms of evidence, to detect false logic and reasoning.

Practical Skills

  • The ability to specify, design and construct computer-based systems.
  • The ability to evaluate systems in terms of general quality attributes and possible trade-offs presented within the given problem.
  • The ability to recognise any risks or safety aspects that may be involved in the operation of computing equipment within a given context.
  • The ability to operate computing equipment effectively, taking into account its logical and physical properties.
  • Effective self-management in terms of time, planning and behaviour, motivation, self-starting, individual initiative and enterprise.
  • Learning to learn and developing an appetite for learning; reflective, adaptive and collaborative learning.
  • The ability to conduct research either individually or as part of a team for projects, dissertations and presentations
  • Self awareness, openness and sensitivity to diversity in terms of people and cultures.
  • Effective performance within a team environment including leadership, team building, influencing and project management skills.

Transferable Skills

  • Effective information-retrieval skills (including the use of browsers, search engines and catalogues).
  • Numeracy and literacy in both understanding analysing and presenting cases involving a quantitative and qualitative dimension.
  • Managing one's own learning and development including time management and organisational skills.
  • Interactive and group skills.
  • An ability to self-appraise and reflect on practice.
  • Effective communication, orally, and in writing, using a range of media which are widely used in business.
  • The effective use of Communication and Information Technology.
  • Effective problem solving and decision making using appropriate quantitative and qualitative skills.
  • Interpersonal skills of effective listening, negotiating, persuasion and presentation.